Local residents gathered in Springfield to read “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Anti-slavery activist Frederick ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

Abraham Lincoln, a world force : speech ... in the House of Representatives, Feb. 12, 1918 by London, Meyer Publication date 1918 Topics Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira ...

The 4th of July is a federal holiday in the United States that commemorates the Continental Congress’s signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

The flair for the theatrical is at the core of “Lavender Men.” The film is set in a small theater where a rather mediocre play about Abraham Lincoln is being staged. But no sooner has the ...

A recent Lincoln East graduate was among thousands of people who fled the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Des Moines after an intruder carrying a backpack walked on stage.

Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

The scroll, titled "A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery," dates to 1847 and was signed by more than 115 Baptist ministers.

The Thirteenth Amendment (estimated at $8–12 million) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimated at $3–5 million) are both signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The landmark documents, rarely ...